AURORA, Colorado - Seventeen-year-old Colorado shooting victim Ryan Lumba, who remains in intensive care following two surgeries that removed bullet slugs in his stomach, now struggles with anxiety attacks.
His mother, Remy Lumba, told Balitang America that her son constantly asks if the attacker is still in jail. She said she always has to remind him that the nightmare is over.
Doctors are treating Ryan’s anxiety and have urged his mother to always be by his side.
Meantime, law enforcement officials said the suspect in last week's massacre at a Colorado movie theater, James Holmes, sent a package to a university psychiatrist that contained a notebook describing the attack.
The package, which reportedly included stick figure drawings of a gunman shooting people, was sent before the shootings.
Mrs. Lumba said officials of the University of Colorado hospital gave them a heads up about this, before the news came out to help them manage Ryan’s further anxiety attacks.
Hospital help shooting victims
Meanwhile, three of five hospitals treating the wounded said they will limit or completely wipe out medical bills for the victims.
Health-One, which owns the medical center of Aurora, and Swedish Medical Center said it will limit or eliminate charges based on the individual circumstances of the patients.
Children’s Hospital Colorado, for its part, said it would use donations and its charity care fund to cover the medical expenses of the uninsured shooting victims it is treating.
For those who do have insurance, the hospital said it will waive all co-pays.
These three hospitals have treated 22 shooting victims. Some victims, many of them young, are uninsured and face mounting hospital bills.
source: abs-cbnnews.com
